[HN Gopher] A Civil War - Inside Switzerland's Astonishingly Pol... ___________________________________________________________________ A Civil War - Inside Switzerland's Astonishingly Polite Armed Conflict of 1847 Author : DrZootron Score : 16 points Date : 2022-01-18 10:02 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (militaryhistorynow.com) (TXT) w3m dump (militaryhistorynow.com) | m_mueller wrote: | Much of this was thanks to General Dufour afaik, the federalist | General. Can't think of a better way to navigate 150k combatants | to come out of this war basically unharmed, on both sides. The | conclusion was foregone, but convincing everyone of this was the | tricky part. | eatonphil wrote: | On a tangent, the list of Liechtenstein-Switzerland military | conflicts on Wikipedia is hilarious and kind of cute. | | For example: | | > On 26 August 1976, just before midnight, 75 members of the | Swiss Army and a number of packhorses mistakenly took a wrong | turn and ended up 500 metres into Liechtenstein at Iradug, in | Balzers. The Liechtensteiners reportedly offered drinks to the | Swiss soldiers. | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liechtenstein%E2%80%93Switzerl... | Victerius wrote: | Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they | had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced | Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In | Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of | democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. | | - Harry Lime, The Third Man ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-01-19 23:00 UTC)